Seminario 23/06 – Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) – The introduction of the British debit card at the dawn of the digital economy, 1980s-1990s

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Abstract Debit card payments are the cornerstone of the cashless economy. They exemplify the transfer of monetary balances, enabling on-the-spot transactions through online, real-time, electronic networks. While debit cards were an aspiration in the 1960s, it was during the mid-1970s that the first significant attempts were made to make these aspirations a reality in the…

Seminario 23/05 – Vicente Calabuig (U. de Valencia) – Elites, Inequality and the Emergence and Erosion of Progressive Taxation

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Abstract This paper theoretically explores the role of elites in the rise of progressive taxation in Western countries at the beginning of the XXth century and in its posterior erosion in the last four decades. We focus on its interaction with the level of inequality between the elite and the citizens. We analyse a stylized…

Seminario 23/04 – Víctor Luque (U. Almería) -Cadenas migratorias en la configuración de las comunidades mineras en la España del s. XIX: el caso de Linares

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Resumen A lo largo del siglo XIX se produjo en el ´ámbito europeo un considerable aumento de las migraciones exteriores e interiores. Tradicionalmente la historiografía ha considerado que en España los movimientos migratorios permanentes, tanto internos como externos, durante la mayor parte del siglo XIX fueron relativamente débiles en comparación con las de otros países…

Seminario 23/03 – Parinya Nakpathom (University of Burapha) -Determinants Influencing Purchasing Behavior of Korean Cosmetic Products.

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Abstract This study seeks to explore the main factors influencing Thai female consumers purchasing behavior and identify the relationship between consumer behavior and sales objectives of Korean Cosmetic brands I. The data was collected in the form of an online questionnaire which was divided into 5 subsections. This was followed by 1) Demographic data 2)…

Seminario 23/02: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche (European Commission) – Measuring bilateral trade in terms of value added

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The increase in the fragmentation of production across countries and the subsequent growth in the trade of intermediate products have raised concerns about the suitability of conventional trade statistics to understand the economic consequences of trade. Several authors have attempted to disentangle value added content of trade. This technical report proposes a novel framework that…

Seminario 23/01: Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): Sobre la aproximación de soluciones de juegos cooperativos

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El cómputo exacto de soluciones de juegos cooperativos presenta una alta complejidad computacional cuando el número de jugadores involucrados es lo suficientemente grande. En este sentido, las metodologías de muestreo se presentan como alternativa para su aproximación en general. En esta charla revisaremos algunas de las propuestas en la literatura basadas en muestreo, así como…

Seminario 22/18: Manuel Pérez García (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) – Global Trade in Imperial China and Spain: GECEM Project Database and Big Data Mining (1680-1840)

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Abstract Within the framework of the current global crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic and the hegemonic role of China in the world economy, the revision of China’s socioeconomic and political transformation from imperial Qing dynasty until the present day is paramount. This presentation focuses on a crucial period in the history of China, the…

Seminario 22/17: Germán López Buenache (Universidad de Murcia) Factor models for large and incomplete data sets with unknown group structure

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Most economic applications rely on a large number of time series, which typically have a remarkable clustering structure and they are available over different spans. To handle these databases, we combined the expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm outlined by Stock and Watson (JBES, 2002) and the estimation algorithm for large factor models with an unknown number of…

Seminario 22/16: Lisard Palau (Universidad de Barcelona) – La formación del mercado de trabajo en las colonias industriales de Catalunya, 1900-1936

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Cuando hablamos de las colonias industriales textiles nos estamos refiriendo, seguramente, a uno de los fenómenos más característicos de la industrialización de Catalunya. Surgidas mayormente a partir de los años setenta del siglo XIX, tendieron a ubicarse a lo largo de los cursos fluviales de los ríos Llobregat, Ter y afluentes para utilizar el agua…

Seminario 22/15: Ismael Gálvez Iniesta (Universidad de las Islas Baleares) Being young in Spain and the Scars from Recessions

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We assess the unequal effects of the Great Recession on the labor market outcomes of different cohorts of young individuals and education groups in Spain. We provide empirical evidence that young workers in Spain suffer from a high unemployment rate because of a low job-finding rate and a high separation rate. We also document that…